![]() Previous FIM Land Speed World Record events on the Salar have seen outstanding conditions, and multiple world records, the first set by Al Lamb in 2017, a speed of 427.84 km/h (265.849 mph) aboard his Honda CBR1000RR, at the time, the fastest-ever sit-on motorcycle speed. ![]() The August event will take place during the Bolivian winter, with total average rainfall between May and August at 3mm (0.01 inches) ensuring prime salt conditions. The course at the Bolivia Speed Trials will be 24 km (15 miles) long and 33 meters (110 feet) wide, the prime stage for racers needing a longer track than Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats can provide. Set atop Bolivia’s Altiplano at 3,600 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level, the Salar de Uyuni covers over 10,000 square kilometers (nearly 4,000 square miles) with salt up to 10 meters thick, making it the ideal natural terrain for a seemingly endless track. Find more information on the event and entry cost at. The event will be limited to total of 15 to help ensure optimum turnaround times for qualifying record runs. The TOP 1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials is made possible through the support of Federacion Boliviana de Motociclismo (FBM), and is open to all automobile and motorcycle entries. Five years later, the TOP 1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials are finally set to return to the Salar for an FIM-FIA-sanctioned event, 16-21 August, 2023. Following the pioneering effort was a return event in 2018, but since then, any attempts to return to South America’s famous proving grounds, the largest salt flats in the world, had been thwarted. ![]() ![]() Back in 2017, some of the world’s fastest motorcycle racers headed to South America to make history at the first-ever FIM-sanctioned land speed world record event on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. ![]()
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